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TallGuyJohninBKK, on 2011-10-03 16:33:07, said:
WorldwideALOHA, on 2011-10-03 16:07:48, said:
A little competition for True will be good - probably reduce the prices over time too, as many people with more limited budgets will be drawn to a-la-cart pricing or the pretty good price of 1,500 baht per month for the whole ball of wax. Throw in HD and they will have a winner.
I agree about competition for TrueVisions.... But the pricing for 1-Sky relative to what they offer is daft, and their probable eventual channel lineup doesn't seem headed toward being particularly farang friendly, apart from ASN... -- if the venture ultimately survives at all.
Via the USTVNow option described above, providing you have a decent internet connection here, you can have a 20+ U.S. cable TV lineup including U.S. ESPN for $30 a month (after the introductory $20 promotion ends)... not the $50 1-Sky price you mention above. And the regular price of $44 a month for the same plan with a digital video recorder service for time-shifting...
Their paid channel lineup includes:
ABC, CBS, CW, FOX, NBC, PBS, A&E, Animal Planet, Bravo, Cartoon Network, CNBC, U.S. CNN, Comedy Central, Discover Channel, U.S. ESPN, Food Network, FX, History, Lifetime, Syfy, TBS, TNT, and USA.
Sounds good, but watching games on the computer with everyone crowded around a PC doesn't exactly sound too great. Not to mention the internet speeds in Thailand, especially Phuket, are off and on at the best of times.
Streaming it from the computer to the TV is an option, but if you have ever streamed from a PC to a wide-screen big TV, it looks like watching a pixelated version - really bad picture quality. Not exactly why one gets a big TV.
I see they have an HD DVR version, but it is $169 USD / mo. (over 5,000 baht!!! - per month) PLUS a set-up fee of $295 USD (8,850 baht!!!)
At those prices I can keep True w HD plus the new 1-Sky for ASN and still have money left over...
